Over the past year, researchers in South Sudan have noticed an extraordinary and unexpected phenomenon — thousands and thousands of animals thriving in what was a war-torn land just a few years ago. Ravaged by civil war for 22 years, the small village of Boma is the last place wildlife conservationists expected to find large numbers of animals, but that is exactly what they've found: quite possibly the world's largest animal migration, rivaling that of the Serengeti.
"Who would have thought a million animals could have survived and keep going [sic]," said Paul Elkan of the Wildlife Conservation Society. Elkan is the lead researcher in the area and has spent months observing and tracking the herds of animals from his small plane, dubbed "The Annie."
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